{"id":28930,"date":"2016-08-14T15:47:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T22:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/ibms-new-artificial-neurons-a-big-step-toward-powerful-brain-like-computers"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:24:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:24:59","slug":"ibms-new-artificial-neurons-a-big-step-toward-powerful-brain-like-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/ibms-new-artificial-neurons-a-big-step-toward-powerful-brain-like-computers","title":{"rendered":"IBM\u2019s New Artificial Neurons a Big Step Toward Powerful Brain-Like Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ibms-new-artificial-neurons-a-big-step-toward-powerful-brain-like-computers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nnano\/journal\/v11\/n8\/full\/nnano.2016.70.html\">sleek new computer chip<\/a> developed by IBM, we are one step closer to making computers work like the brain.<\/p>\n<p>The neuromorphic chip is made from a phase-change material commonly found in rewritable optical discs (confused? more on this later). Because of this secret sauce, the chip\u2019s components behave strikingly similar to biological neurons: they can scale down to nanometer size and perform complicated computations rapidly with little energy.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/08\/14\/ibms-new-artificial-neurons-a-big-step-toward-brain-like-computers\/?utm_source=Singularity+Hub+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d7a8863789-Hub_Daily_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f0cf60cdae-d7a8863789-57880469\">http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/08\/14\/ibms-new-artificial-neu...5;57880469<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a sleek new computer chip developed by IBM, we are one step closer to making computers work like the brain. The neuromorphic chip is made from a phase-change material commonly found in rewritable optical discs (confused? more on this later). Because of this secret sauce, the chip\u2019s components behave strikingly similar to biological [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28930"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66580,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28930\/revisions\/66580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}